ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL UNTROUBLED YEAR FOR THE WORLD

at 12 midnight we celebrate a new calendar year ... an Alfred S. Mole 1915 photograph

of school students and faculty

       

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a year is a long time to wait ... a Don Martin cartoon for MAD

        

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1936 was a  'leap year'

(a calendar year that contains an additional day)

       

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cartoonist Robert Crumb paused to reflect in 2016 ...

       

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a Wiener Werkstätte greeting card for the new year,  1911?

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the Wiener Werkstätte art and design school,  before the Nazis came

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noisemakers and confetti are ready in 1926 ... who will be the designated sober driver?

       

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Christmas has passed,  go home old man ...  a Joseph Christian Leyendecker 

illustration,  1940       see full size

       

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1923 store window displays must be dismantled ... click twice

       

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it's time now for the adults to party ... Charles Bukowski

by Drew Friedman       see full size

       

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there is a costume party in 1890 ...  "Devil & Clownesse"

        

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an 1891 costume    "Sorceress" 

       

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Julius Diez,  1903 art

       

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Umberto Brunelleschi       see full size

       

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Will Bradley graphic art

       

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there is a house party in  architect Wolfgang Feierbach's 1968 'Kunststoffhaus' 

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there are bar parties ... Walter Schnackenberg art

       

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there are wine parties ... a 1966 decanter designed by Olaf Skoogfors 

        

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there are life-long parties ... a Thomas Landseer cartoon

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there are apartment parties ... Guy Billout art    see full size

       

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there are formal parties in 1868       see full size

       

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there are royal parties ...  Johann Ulrich Krause,  1700?       see full size

       

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Wayne Thiebaud art       see full size

       

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but the hour grows close ... Alfred Kubin art

       

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until ... it is midnight in 1848 Paris!

       

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1721 fireworks       see full size

        

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it takes a few more hours for the 1956

party to finish ...

        

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a ride home in a 1969 Dodge taxi       see full size

        

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recuperating the next day ... a William Makepeace Thackeray cartoon 

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return to the grinding life on Monday ... Hans Tegner

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Time 1       Time 2      Time 3

 

CHECKER PATTERNS . . . by different artists

1956

      

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noise,  heat,  fumes ... a 1948 linoleum factory

      

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a lino-cut art print by Claude Flight       click image twice for full size

      

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the 1901 home of architect Joseph Maria Olbrich       click twice

      

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1881 Cuba ... only small pockets of aboriginals exist in Cuba today

      

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1947 food packaging       click twice

      

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a 1912 hair salon advertisement

      

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1929 stairs

      

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 Mauriz Young,  1903       click twice

      

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mod fashion by Caroline Charles,  1964

      

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disposable clothing ... a 1960s paper dress years later,  with some age damage

      

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 a Bob Peak 1963 illustration       click twice

      

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an art deco style piano,  1930s?       click twice

      

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the culinary arts in 1906       click twice

      

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Carl Larsson art,  1900       click twice

      

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at the 1939 New York World's Fair

      

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"Heart Throbs"  romance comic book,  1970s

      

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a Gilbert Bundy illustration

      

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Kawase Hasui art       click twice

      

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Greek god of the sea Poseidon protecting a Canadian Pacific passenger ship

      

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a René Gruau fashion illustration

      

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Mary Blair color design for Disney       click twice

      

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at the 1902 Turin art expo

      

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Victor Vasarely analog art       click twice

      

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"Avenant beholds the grotto"    a C.B. Falls 1930 illustration

      

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an N.C. Wyeth 1917 illustration       click twice

      

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1970 Ford muscle cars

      

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an Alexander Girard chair,  1967

      

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a C.W. Bacon book cover illustration,  England       click twice

      

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"Homeward Bound"    a 1933 Canadian Pacific travel poster